When I was a child—possibly 7 or eight 8 years old—I attended a production of Cats at a dinky Jersey Shore community theater attached to an ice cream parlor. I wasn’t particularly interested in musical theater as a kid and knew nothing about Cats. Not the plot, not the music. I just knew there were cats in it, doin’ cat things. But nothing prepared me for the moment in the show when the titular animals, wearing some monstrosity of pantyhose, fake fur, and Sharpie’d on whiskers, jump into the audience and crawl in the aisles, peering closely into the faces of me and my younger brother, as if they were actively trying to scare us. This brief moment before the cats returned to the stage was undoubtedly freaky and really the only thing about the show that actually stuck with me as a child.
to grotesque heights, I remembered how bizarre that moment in the audience felt, being confronted by these large, fuzzy, vaguely sensual actors. Were there other people out there who were similarly weirded out by these cats, as children? Of course, there were.
I just remember the show being so dark and so creepy. Now, listening to the music, there’s so much minor tone, minor keys. I remember being scared and being like,. I thought: this is going to be magical, but it’s scary! Those outfits don’t make them look like cute little cats. Like, I used to loveAnd then I will never forget when they came out into the audience. You never know if it’s your real memory or if you just made it up, but I feel like one of them came up to me and almost.
But the thing that really crossed the line in my mind as a kid was we were sitting towards the aisle and in the show some of the cats are coming down the aisle and lightly touching the people who were in the aisle.
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